M 83 - The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy CH-1
M 83 - The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy CH-1
M 83, also known as The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, is located in the constellation Hydra, at a distance, from Earth, of 15,000,000 light-years. This galaxy is one of the brightest spiral galaxies, shining at a magnitude of 7.5 and contains thousands of star clusters, hundreds of supernova remnants, and a huge number of star forming emission nebulae, and very prominent dust lanes.
This image is over 15 hours of total exposure time of LRGB subs @ 300s and 600s. I took the time to download all the RAW files and ran it through WBPP and NSG in Pixinsight.
Hope ya like it!
Tom
This image is over 15 hours of total exposure time of LRGB subs @ 300s and 600s. I took the time to download all the RAW files and ran it through WBPP and NSG in Pixinsight.
Hope ya like it!
Tom
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope
CHI-1 Planewave CDK24
Camera
FLI ProLine PL9000
Location
El Sauce Observatory, Chile
Date of observation
February 2021-March 2022
Filters
Astrodon LRGB 2GEN
Processing
Pixinsight
Credits
Telescope Live/Tom Peter